Impact of Nonlinear Rosseland Approximation on Flow of Newtonian Fluid with Unequal Diffusivities of Chemically Reactive Species

Abstract

This investigation studies the flow of a Newtonian fluid close to stagnation point past a stretching/shrinking plate embedded in a porous media. Heat transfer analysis with nonlinear thermal radiation (TR) is also carried out. Homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions with unequal diffusivities of reactants take place in the fluid. The controlling partial differential equations (DEs) of the existing model are reduced to dimensionless ordinary DEs through similarity transformations. These subsequent equations are numerically tackled with the guide of the shooting procedure. The velocity, temperature and concentration’s behaviour has been inspected for specific estimations of the including parameters. The viscous fluid (VF) temperature increases with nonlinear TR. The change in the concentration profile due to the diffusion coefficient rate $$ \delta $$ is more prominent in the concentration of specie D compared to specie C. Heterogeneous reaction parameter intensity is very helpful in reducing the concentration of bulk fluid $$ \phi_{1}(\eta) $$ as well as increasing the surface catalyst concentration $$ \phi_{2}(\eta) $$